Life Is For Everyone

L.I.F.E. Is For Everyone is dedicated to the promotion, support, reverence, and respect for all human life, from conception until natural death, without regard to condition, quality, age or creed, whether born or pre-born.

Our Goals and Activities:

1. To bear witness to the truth about the evils of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research by:

Urging clergy and other community leaders to deliver pro-life messages to their people

Distributing pro-life materials wherever possible

Providing pro-life speakers to our schools

Sharing the pro-life message with other organizations and friends to urge them to action

bearing witness to the truth of God’s love to those approaching abortion abbatoirs

3.To contact legislators to urge them to vote pro-life

4.To assist with fund-raising to support these activities.

5.To urge all men, women, and children to pray that people everywhere will turn away from the culture of death and embrace the Culture of Life, revering life as our greatest gift from God, our Creator.

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Would you allow Atheists or Agnostics into your group who are pro-life? I know of several people in this group, even though they are not religious, have an extreme respect for humanity and consider abortion murder.

FWIW, I think it give groups like yours more clout because regardless of what you believe, you cannot argue or support your stance of the LEGALITY of abortion with a Bible as there is a separation of Church and State.

Of course they would be welcome! You don’t have to believe in God to do His work. He still loves you, you are His child too, just like the tiny babies and the poor women you seek to protect from the butchers’ knives.

As to separation of church and state, that phrase comes from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a church in Danbury Connecticut (NOT from the Constitution or Bill of Rights). In it, Jefferson assured the congregation that the Constitution guarantees that the STATE cannot dictate how you choose to worship (which is the point of the so-called Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion”). Jefferson did NOT say your faith cannot inform your decisions on candidates or legislation, although many proponents of unGodly behaviors would want you to believe that. They also don’t want you to notice that the words following the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause are – OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. (“thereof” referring to religion). Therefore, I do not accept the un-American notion that faith has no place in deciding legislation.

How is it okay for you to protest in front of abortion clinics against abortion doctors when if your same god can allow hundreds of other unborn and born babies to die due to various other reasons??!

Like say for example, a baby dies from a congenital malformation/ disorder. Why don’t I see you and your placard at the altar protesting against your god for taking its life??

Funny I don’t see your group outside a tobacco/liquor store (those two combined kill more people and babies every year than all of the abortions held). Give it a thought instead of being just hypocrites acting for a stone age fairytale.

Oh I feel bad for the guy who holds the sign at the American Wellness Center everyday. Pretty deluded I must say.

Listening to your words and your tone, it sounds like you are angry at God and those who believe in Him. Is that the case? If so, why? Have you lost someone near to you because of drunk driving, or lung cancer? Were you let down by someone in your family or in the Church whom you expected to help you? If you have, I am truly sorry for your loss and pray you will be healed of your pain.

If any of these things happened to you, then the answer for suffering and death – and your pain – should be pretty obvious. Suffering and death is the consequence of sin (yes, sin, that word people are so scared to say). Sin is nothing more than purposely choosing not to do God’s will, and since He made us, He knows what is best for us. Therefore, when we disobey Him, the natural outcome is pain and suffering. (Analogy – If your mom tells you not to touch a hot stove, and you touch it, was it she who burned you, or was it the natural consequence of your stubborn decision to disobey and touch the stove?)

I agree, smoking, alcoholism, drunk driving AND abortion all violate God’s commandment, Thou shalt not kill, and as God’s children, we all should stand against these crimes against God and neighbor and help those who cry out for assistance. (as described in the Gospel story of the Good Samaritan). God gave us this commandment because He loves us and wants us to be happy with Him forever in heaven. But when we hurt or kill someone, we not only harm that person, but many other people as well, including ourselves. By sin, we also push ourselves away from God’s deep and abiding love. He is always ready and waiting to take us back, but He does not force Himself upon us. (witness the patience demonstrated by the father in the Gospel story of the Prodigal Son.)

You also asked about congenital defects and disease killing children, and you place the blame on God. If you knew God and knew what was written in the Bible, or knew your Catechism, you would know you are blaming the wrong person. The Bible tells us “God did not make death, and He does not delight in the death of the living. . . For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of His own eternity.” (Wisdom 1:13, 2:23) So if God didn’t do it to us, how did we end up suffering and dying? The Bible answers, “Nevertheless it was through the envy of the devil came death into the world.” (Wisdom 2:24).

God does not will for anyone, much less a child, suffer and die. The fact that all human beings, including children, are subject to suffering and death is a natural consequence of (not punishment for) the Original Sin of Adam and Eve. The Catechism tells us: “By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the original holiness and justice he had received from God, not only for himself, but for all human beings. Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants a human nature wounded by their own first sin and hence deprived of original holiness and justice. This deprivation is called “original sin”. As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers, subject to ignorance, suffering and the domination of death, and inclined to sin (this inclination is called “concupiscence”). (CCC 416-418)

But God is also able to bring good out of tragedy (as one writer puts it: He is able to draw straight with crooked lines). Case in point: He redeemed the world through His own innocent Son’s suffering and death. St. Paul explains: “Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man (Adam), and through sin, death; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned… So then as through one trespass (that of Adam), all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness (Jesus sacrifice on the cross), all men were justified to life.” (Romans 5:12, 18) “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) Indeed, to anyone alive at the time of the Crucifixion, Jesus’ death would have seemed a triumph of evil over good, yet another murder of an innocent man…But three days later, Jesus rose from the dead and triumphed over sin and death. It is through this very sacrifice of God’s own Son that you – and all of us – have the hope of being reunited with deceased loved ones in the next life, the Resurrection, where “death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away” (Rev. 21:4).

This is just a brief response to your question. For more information than I am able to provide you, please read books like Making Sense Out of Suffering by Peter Kreeft, The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis, the lives of the saints, the Catechism of the Catholic Church or the Bible itself for your answers.

For true understanding and healing, please know that it is precisely God’s altar to which all of us can bring our suffering. Because He made us, because He became human like us, who better to understand our struggles? For true peace, please, I beg you, bring your anger and sadness and questions to the foot of Jesus’ cross. Be honest with Him. Open your heart to him. He can handle all you have, and He will pour His blessing upon you. “For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.”